Description

SJS Executives is currently seeking a talented Heavy Equipment Mechanic to join our team. Our ideal candidate will have experience making repairs to a variety of heavy mobile equipment and vehicles, such as bulldozers, road graders, rollers, and similar heavy construction and earth moving vehicles such as; front-end loaders, backhoes, and similar power shovels; mobile cranes; heavy combat equipment. Also have experience with heavy special purpose vehicles, and similar equipment, utilizing gasoline or diesel power and which have mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and electric systems, controls, or features not commonly found on automobiles and ordinary transport trucks and buses.

Responsibilities

Determines the cause of malfunctions and makes repairs to a variety of heavy mobile equipment and vehicles.

Completes major repairs, overhauls, and modifications independently.

Conducts functional and performance tests on completed work.

Trace and locate defects which cause hydraulic and other major systems to fail or not perform up to specifications regarding power output, lifting capacity, speed, and pressure.

Analyzes malfunctions and determines the extent of repairs necessary by visual and auditory examinations and by the use of a wide variety of test equipment, such as engine analyzers, dynamometers, exhaust analyzers, vacuum and fuel pump testers, injector testers, ignition timers, tachometers, voltmeters and gauges, micrometers, calipers, and dial indicators. Select and complies with technical manuals, illustrations, specifications, diagrams, schematics, and similar guides to make repairs and modifications according to specifications and procedures.

Measures, fits, and installs components, such as pistons, valves, bearings, gears, and cylinders, to specified clearances.

Connects, meshes, aligns, and adjusts parts and systems to assure proper operation of the complete system or vehicle.